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Tarsha

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tarsha has been given to 2,375 babies in the U.S. since 1961. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1974, with 246 recorded.

Babies named Tarsha, 1996

1 in 729,000

Tarsha over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tarsha: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tarsha means

Tarsha is a given name.

The naming story behind Tarsha

Wikidata records Tarsha as a given name. The entity identifier is Q136724709, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,375 girls were recorded with the name Tarsha between 1961 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 246 in 1974; its best national rank was #630 in 1974.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tarsha?

Tarsha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1996
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,646,048 births
Among girls only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1996
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tarsha sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 505,451 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tarsha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tarshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tarsha was born before 1974 — so the typical Tarsha is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
72.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,375
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 72.3% of all recorded uses (1,716).

Is Tarsha rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1974 (246)
Years since peak
51
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#630
1974

Spellings of Tarsha

Tarsha is not the most common spelling — Martha is, with 49.3% against Tarsha's 0.21%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tarsha is used

Across 1910–2025, Tarsha was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 61,692 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 16,667
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 20,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 25,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 25,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 25,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Virginia1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tarsha has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Tarsha around the world

Where Tarsha ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1971–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tarsha by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#630
1974
Peak year
1974
246 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
2,375
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tarsha

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tarsha

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tarsha, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tarsha

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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